 Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his...  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Sida 139efter Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 744 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 sidor
...Bos•well, p. 265. 1 Pope's Prologue to Addison's Cato, 1. 4. * ' . . . Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly...place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.' Macaulay's Essays, i. 374. ' See post, Sept. 17. 1777, and Malone's note of March 15, 1781, and Boswell's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 sidor
...p. 265. ' Pope's Prologue to Addison's Cato, l. 4. * • . . . Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly...place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.' Macaulay's Essays, i. 374. ' See post, Sept. 17, 1777, and Malone's note of March 15, 1781, and Boswell's... | |
 | 1831 - 652 sidor
...interest. The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great — a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, — Shakspeare is not more...orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers, lie has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly, that it is not worth while to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 sidor
...the best books in the world. It is assuredly a great, a very great, work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, — Shakspeare is not more...orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them: Eclipse is first,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 sidor
...interest. The life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Horner is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more...Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Bos well is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly,... | |
 | 1847 - 560 sidor
...assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspearc is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes...orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced all his competitors," &c. Such, too, is the general opinion, maintained from its origin in... | |
 | 1898 - 712 sidor
...with the Editor's permission, in ' N. it Q.' " Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poete, Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists,...biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his comiKîtitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them." But we must remember that when... | |
 | 1867 - 696 sidor
...(Routledge.) Macaulay characterised Bostrell's Johnson " as a great, a very great work"; adding very justly: " Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second....that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is rirst, and the rest nowhere." Of this wonderful book, we have now before us, a wonderfully cheap and... | |
 | James Roche - 1851 - 624 sidor
...assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspere is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes...orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced all his competitors," &c. Such, too, is the general opinion, maintained from its origin in... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 sidor
...of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of oraturs, than Boswell is the first nf biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all...not sure that there is in the whole history of the hitman intellect so strange я phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have... | |
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